[PLUG] Trouble with siliconhd homerun network tuner...

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Tue Mar 16 15:02:56 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Michael Robinson
<plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
> I can get it to work with a 2.4 Ghz P4 and 512 megs of ram on a CentOS
> system no problem.  On my Windows XP 3.06 Ghz P4, 1.5 gigs of ram, I
> can only get television streaming to work in an administrator account.
> I used tweakxp.exe and then uninstalled it because it is only free for
> 30 days.  The important tweak I used this for forces Windows XP core
> to run out of memory instead of swapping in and out from hard disk.
> Another tweak, I set the minimum and maximum pagefile size to 1.5 gig.
> Beyond that, I don't think I did any other tweaks that made any
> difference.  How can I figure out quickly what the differences are
> that cause performance problems in non administrative accounts?
>
> I'm close to thinking that I'm going to have to dual boot on my Windows
> machine CentOS to get things working.
>
> When I try to stream television from the tuner in the guest account on
> the XP box, at most there is 1 frame and than the picture freezes and
> there is no sound.  The tweakxp.exe utility was supposed to propagate
> changes to all accounts, but I guess that didn't happen.
>

What app are you using to stream on Linux?



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